Ecological development has been described as “the meeting of developmental biology with
the real world”(Gilbert 2001); in other words, the study of development as it occurs in nature …

Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of an individual organism to alter its physiology/
morphology in response to changes in environmental conditions. This ability is particularly …

Adaptation to heterogeneous environments can occur via phenotypic plasticity, but how
often this occurs is unknown. Reciprocal transplant studies provide a rich dataset to address …

Abstract Phenotypic plasticity is commonly assessed by comparing phenotypes of plants
grown under a range of environmental conditions. However, it is well known that many …

This chapter considers the nature, role, and evolutionary implications of phenotypic plasticity
as an adaptive property in plants. Plasticity is here defined as variation in phenotypic …

A single genotype can produce different phenotypes in different environments. This
fundamental property of organisms is known as phenotypic plasticity. Recently, intensive …

A research agenda for the next phase of plasticity studies calls for contributions from a
diverse group of biologists, working both independently and collaboratively, to pursue four …

Signal detection and response are fundamental to all aspects of phenotypic plasticity. This
paper proposes a novel mechanism that may act as a general limit to the evolution of …

Adaptive plasticity in plants is commonly interpreted for fitness estimates like size and
fecundity. The specialization hypothesis, however, predicts that plasticity in such characters …

For more than two decades the concept of phenotypic plasticity has allowed researchers to
go beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy to gain deeper insights into how organisms are …